You never know who is really behind some of these information websites. Actors for good and for evil hid behind an Internet identity. They use a different name or several names to infiltrate political and social media sites that have different points of view about a plethora of topics. No wonder Trump calls the media “Fake News.” People who play this high-tech game are fake. But those people say that fake has several meanings.
If news like Hillary Clinton died during a Honduras mission to bring more refugees across the border illegally, you might not believe it. But according to North Waterboro Maine’s Christopher Blair, a lot of people believe that. Chris Blair believes they do because he wrote those words on his website. Chris has a long list of disclaimers on his site. One disclaimer warns visitors that “Nothing on this site is real.”
Mr. Blair told the Washington Post that his most extreme messages, the messages that reek from satire, like “Bill Clinton is really a serial killer,” get a lot of visitor action. And his post, “President Obama dodged the Vietnam draft when he turned nine,” got more hits than Hillary story. Blair reinforces people beliefs about politics, immigration, Gay Rights, and other hot topics. Everyone likes to know they share beliefs with other people. Blair’s website is ground zero for people who fuel the “Idiocracy” Blair claims we all live in.
What Blair’s website reveals isn’t pretty. People who don’t have a grasp of basic facts about issues and political candidates impact the political process just as much as people who are more aware of the facts. The more aware feel more connected to the system due to mental conditioning by schools, teachers, and government laws. But even though they see the facts differently, the ignorant and the aware get caught in the rhetorical mud of the system, according to some liberals.
But Chris Blair also used creativity as a way to make a decent living. Before he started his satirical website, he and his family struggled like millions of people did in 2008. Chris knew moving from city to city to find work made no sense. So with time on his hands, and a computer that worked, he started to make no sense on the Internet. He used tech and creativity to shatter his poverty mindset, and he discovered truth lies in the minds of the beholder.
Dil Bole Oberoi
